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Lecture 9: Learning

Surveys classical and operant conditioning, their limits, learned helplessness and delayed gratification in MIT’s 2011 introductory psychology course.

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The session outline moves from basic procedures to their limits, making it useful for comparing what a conditioning experiment explains with broader claims about learning.

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